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Wednesday, October 30, 2013

Guns and Horses: Getting it Right

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Western writers are like other fiction writers in that they have super powers. They can bend time, compress space, and sweep away boring pe...
Monday, October 28, 2013

I'm not one of them!

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Some people are visual. I'm not one of them. But I appreciate good design, even if I'm incapable of drawing a straight line with a r...
Sunday, October 27, 2013

How about a free vacation?

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Matt Haig posted an article titled “12 Years as a Writer” . It’s a lessons-learned piece. I especially like #11, which reads: “We like ...
Friday, October 25, 2013

Creative Librarians

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Book Riot has published a piece on Finding Libraries in Unexpected Places . There are some great pictures and an interesting narrative ...
Tuesday, October 22, 2013

Buddies in the Saddle reviews The Return

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Ron Scheer writes reasoned and comprehensive book reviews, so I was a little nervous when he accepted a review copy of The Return . I n...
Monday, October 21, 2013

The complex lives of common people

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Shane is one of my favorite Western films. The Jack Schaefer book is also one of my favorite Western novels. There are great films and...
Sunday, October 20, 2013

"Mike Reads" reviews Tempest at Dawn

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The "Mike Reads" blog has reviewed Tempest at Dawn . This is not exactly a New York Times book review, but I liked it because M...
Friday, October 18, 2013

Mark Twain Tells Us How to Write

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Mark Twain didn't like James Fenimore Cooper’s writing. Wait, that was far too mild of a sentence. In his article “Fenimore Cooper'...